Vlado Makelarski (Macedonian: Владо Макеларски; 1919–1993) was a Macedonian Partisan in World War II.[1]
Life
editMakelarski was born in the village of Maqellarë, Albania in 1919 and completed schooling in nearby Debar, Yugoslavia, where he also worked as a waiter. In 1936, he moved with his parents to Skopje where, with his brother's influence, he joined the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia. His and his brother's apartment was used as a place for illegal communist meetings. In 1943, the apartment was raided with several arrested, while Makelarski was sentenced to death in absentia by the occupying Bulgarian authorities.[2]
Following the war, he became director of the ceramics factory "Yug" in Skopje. After the Tito-Stalin split, Makelarski took the side of the Comintern and was subsequently jailed at Goli Otok.[3]
Makelarski died on 29 January 1993.[4] He was a recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941.[5]
References
edit- ^ "За волја на вистината". Saint Jovan Bigorski Monastery. 25 July 2016.
- ^ Беа, загинаа, останаа: спомен книга на загинатите борци во НОВ и жртвите на фашизмот (in Macedonian). Skopje: Исторически архив. 1969. p. 160.
- ^ Димче Најчески, Голооточки сведоштва, III, Последици, Скопје, 2006, 38
- ^ "Владо Макеларски, носител на Партизанска споменица 1941 година" (in Macedonian). Утрински Весник. 29 January 2003. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ Македонска енциклопедија, том II. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2009. p. 899. ISBN 978-608-203-024-1.
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